On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You are not sufficiently suspicious and cynical. > > Observe that the three people who are spamming and trolling > this list have similar political views, views whose > implementation requires a large and powerful state. You need to realie that I am OK with whatever political views are held and espoused by anyone (even yours James!) - if they are here to engage on them, I think thats *great*. It's the intrinsically dishonest crap that I have issues with - and Jei/Choate are not (AFAICT) dishonest (although Jim has this *awful* habit of mapping me into the wrong political camps). In fact, I appreciate Jim's "spam", and have defended it here before (much to Jim's annoyane I am sure!). At least Jim's stuff is [usually] on topic, and a genuine attempt to push thought out to those who are willing to read his posts. Of course, this does not mean I agree with him on any particular issue or item (sometimes I do, sometimes I don't). mattd is a whole different ballgame. He is, as pointed out, quite simply an unmedicated nutjob who makes no visible attempt to do anything but mumble to himself out loud to anyone who is present, with no attempt to engage or even mumble [loosely] on topic. His current fascination with Peter [Trei] is a great example of why he has made it into my killfile - Peter outed him for plaigerism <sp?>, and mattd's response has been to go on and on about how evil Peter is, and how Peter needs to die... sheesh! jei appears [to me] to be legit by intent, but so unfocused as to have made it into my killfile simply as a defensive measure - I simply can't wade through his massive volume, and still get to the 300-500 operational emails I have to deal with each day. I *do* [often] think about how justified his killfile entry is, and I may well remove it during periods of reduced load here. Jim has never, and likely will never make it into any of my killfiles - he is obviously, *completely* and totally legit. Obtuse sometimes, but legit nonetheless (although i *really* wish he would stop and think before lumping me in with his "evil CACL" crowds :-) -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------
